Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.